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Gianna

Gia is too nicknamey for me, as is Gianna. Giovanna would be better, but I find all three of those to sound very unattractive.

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Giada is pretty, but I'd either spell it Jada or put it in the middle to avoid rampant pronunciation problems.

Gia: I don't care for it. It makes me think of a fashion label, for some reason I can't think of. Brand-namey, I guess, or the kind of name a model might adopt. Not my style.

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Giada and Gianna are nice. Giada sounds big and bold like Scarlett; Gianna sounds warm and friendly.

I like all of them, and thank you for pronouncing them correctly. ;-)

I like Gianna for middle name, but I don't care for the other two.

Giada's on my favorites list. I love it, and Jade. And while I'm not a huge Gianna fan, I so appreciate that you're pronouncing it correctly, as opposed to jee-AW-nuh.

how do you pronounce Gia?

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I like Giada. Gianna doesn't really appeal to me.
My absolute favourite Italian girls name is Gioia though (at least right now).

I adore them all, especially Giada. It's so beautiful and spunky.

I don't care for them. I live in an area that had a lot of Italian immigrants settle there in the early 1900s, and now a lot of little girls are being named this sort of thing, and it just seems very, very false to me. In a way, it's the trendy thing to do around here. You never see Allegra or Ottavia or Beatrice (Bay-uh-tree-chay), you get the American-watered-down-Italian Gianna because "ohmigosh", it's Italian, didn't you know? They are nice enough names, but for me, they just carry a negative association.

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+ to borrow a sign off style from Array . . .

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-- Adelle (who is proudly the daughter of said Italian immigrants but would much rather use Allegra, Octavia, or Beatrice) :)

This message was edited 2/24/2007, 8:32 AM

I like Gia and Gianna. Giada doesn't appeal to me, though I have no good reason why.